Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40aa56672f5f3ff8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.1 KB Created: 2021-09-12 18:52:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: db73b7bb42b844461c65aee70aa0dfa2 SHA-1: a4d17eae73600e26071121c1bcca323308502711 SHA-256: 40aa56672f5f3ff87a2bf6ef02c093efcdcf638d76577bb336f1acec670eda3b
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to compromised CMS upload directories or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9909

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+promote+ios+game PDF link annotation
    • https://chingchia.com/uploads/files/202109030712016378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.holzbau-hoelzl.at/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613245de91d2c---javojidixowadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ammk.sk/userfiles/file/xikewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clubsecurite.fr/webroot/upload/files/radatuvarowulukulejus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanedantoptan.com/upload/files/zovogelakijop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baby-daycare.com/uploads/files/202109020454296120.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanleyresources.com/images/63737073492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/femupufedumaluletun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://opalbiosciences.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139ae7a7f8be---45582588138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms2oke.com/contents/files/28124225474.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.commandinglife.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612fd64413e02---51064038721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odpadykj.cz/UserFiles/File/timidevupodivegive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jcca.co.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613019d2314ff---wifatigusolularivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nbkhjc.com/uploads/202109/file/210904090044918592artvnoy2n1g1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bestcaps99.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42350963305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longvu.vn/Images_upload/files/tapodopidewapegeva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://derkwoo.com/upload/editor/files/wiwosesewalaxunek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibookingkr.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_43706B2E8BBF6EBE.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://herodumpsterrental.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cd10d53995aa5953e3afb8172038f1d6/19203141130.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happyjourney.webtrails.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/47389817378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternalcycle.com/FCKFiles/file/basuwojomej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanidom.pl/img/file/jejolizipeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianlanip.com/filespath/files/20210904102032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96rangjai.com/userfiles/file/rivevadexurorujatet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiatravel.kg/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e195992204e3919e660276fb5c9d300b/71666673284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotografiafrancescosomma.com/userfiles/files/25582487599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://latrinquette.com/upload/editor/file/pabutetodemiwojenojatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b7fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d011.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD011 10524 bytes
SHA-256: 1d169f85bec55502ac5090b3a097adaf44d5c683d50445e785ace3c288ccd233
font_02_sfnt_off0000e820.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE820 15320 bytes
SHA-256: 0d5330e8e4804e8024c2e597e265ca1d7c5dd7bb17c58bfdb9ff69ef317322a7